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FOOD




Food is any substance that can be consumed to help the body survive,
usually composed primarily of carbohydrates, fats, minerals, water
and/or proteins, that can be eaten or drunk and metabolized by almost
all multicellular entities for nutrition or pleasure.

Items considered food may be sourced from plants, animals or other
categories such as fungus. Ranching, farming, fishing, hunting,
foraging, grocery shopping and other methods are ways to obtain food.



FOOD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food



Portal:Food
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Food




Food sovereignty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_sovereignty




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FOOD
RELATED
TOPICS




Sustainable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable

Agribusiness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agribusiness

Agroecology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroecology

Food price crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_price_crisis

Land grabbing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grabbing

Land reform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform

Local food
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_food

Malnutrition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition

Permaculture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

Slow Food
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food



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FOOD
SOVEREIGNTY




Food Sovereignty is defined as:

"Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food
and agriculture; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural
production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development
objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self
reliant; to restrict the dumping of products in their markets, and;
to provide local fisheries-based communities the priority in managing
the use of and the rights to aquatic resources. Food sovereignty does
not negate trade, but rather, it promotes the formulation of trade
policies and practices that serve the rights of peoples to safe,
healthy and ecologically sustainable production."

Statement on People’s Food Sovereignty” by Via Campesina et. al.



Seven Principles


Via Campesina’s Seven Principles Of Food Sovereignty are:

1. Food: A Basic Human RightEveryone must have access to safe,
nutritious and culturally appropriate food in sufficient quantity
and quality to sustain a healthy life with full human dignity.
Each nation should declare that access to food is a constitutional
right and guarantee the development of the primary sector to ensure
the concrete realization of this fundamental right.

2. Agrarian ReformA genuine agrarian reform is necessary which gives
landless and farming people — especially women — ownership and control
of the land they work and returns territories to indigenous peoples.
The right to land must be free of discrimination on the basis of gender,
religion, race, social class or ideology; the land belongs to those who
work it.

3. Protecting Natural ResourcesFood Sovereignty entails the sustainable
care and use of natural resources, especially land, water, and seeds and
livestock breeds. The people who work the land must have the right to
practice sustainable management of natural resources and to conserve
biodiversity free of restrictive intellectual property rights. This can
only be done from a sound economic basis with security of tenure, healthy
soils and reduced use of agro-chemicals.

4. Reorganizing Food TradeFood is first and foremost a source of nutrition
and only secondarily an item of trade. National agricultural policies must
prioritize production for domestic consumption and food self-sufficiency.
Food imports must not displace local production nor depress prices.

5. Ending the Globalization of HungerFood Sovereignty is undermined by
multilateral institutions and by speculative capital. The growing control
of multinational corporations over agricultural policies has been
facilitated by the economic policies of multilateral organizations such
as the WTO, World Bank and the IMF. Regulation and taxation of speculative
capital and a strictly enforced Code of Conduct for TNCs [Trans-National
Corporations] is therefore needed.

6. Social PeaceEveryone has the right to be free from violence. Food must
not be used as a weapon. Increasing levels of poverty and marginalization
in the countryside, along with the growing oppression of ethnic minorities
and indigenous populations, aggravate situations of injustice and
hopelessness. The ongoing displacement, forced urbanization, repression
and increasing incidence of racism of smallholder farmers cannot be tolerated.

7. Democratic controlSmallholder farmers must have direct input into formulating
agricultural policies at all levels. The United Nations and related organizations
will have to undergo a process of democratization to enable this to become a
reality. Everyone has the right to honest, accurate information and open and
democratic decision-making. These rights form the basis of good governance,
accountability and equal participation in economic, political and social life,
free from all forms of discrimination. Rural women, in particular, must be
granted direct and active decisionmaking on food and rural issues.



Food sovereignty
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Food_Sovereignty



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FOOD
SOVEREIGNTY
LINKS




Black Food Sovereignty
http://www.geo.coop/story/black-food-sovereignty

European Forum for Food Sovereignty
http://www.nyelenieurope.net/en/

Family Farm Defenders
http://familyfarmers.org/

First International Forum for Food Sovereignty
http://www.nyeleni.org/?lang=en&lang_fixe=ok

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
http://www.ukabc.org/foodsovpaper.htm

Food sovereignty as decolonization
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-014-9548-9

Food sovereignty and rural youth (MIJARC)
http://www.mijarc.net

Food sovereignty viewed from the south
http://www.abcburkina.net/index.php?lang=en

Food Security vs. Food Sovereignty
https://globalfoodpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/food-security-vs-food-sovereignty/

Indigenous Food Sovereignty
http://www.indigenousfoodsystems.org/food-sovereignty

International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty
http://www.foodsovereignty.org

Local Food Local Rules
http://localfoodlocalrules.org/

Towards Food Sovereignty
http://www.iied.org/natural-resources/key-issues/food-and-agriculture/multimedia-publication-towards-food-sovereignty-re

War on Want's Food Sovereignty programme
http://www.waronwant.org/overseas-work/food-justice

What is food sovereignty?
http://www.wdm.org.uk/food-sovereignty

What is food sovereignty?
http://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/what-is-food-sovereignty/

What is food sovereignty?
https://foodsecurecanada.org/who-we-are/what-food-sovereignty

What is food sovereignty?
http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/what-food-sovereignty

What is food sovereignty?
http://familyfarmers.org/?page_id=230

US Food Sovereignty Alliance USFSA
http://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/



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Food Timeline
http://www.foodtimeline.org/




The Grocer's Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grocer%27s_Encyclopedia/




What Eats?
http://www.whateats.com/




Fermentation in food processing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentation_in_food_processing




Portal:Agriculture and Agronomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Agriculture_and_Agronomy




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